Posts by Gio Ciampa

Re: Cosmos...

Your memory is fine (unless mine is just as befuddled...).

Here's hoping that next year's Cosmos "follow-up" is up to the same standard as the original...

Re: Microsoft need

"Actually Tim Cook just today sent a strongly worded open letter to congress..."

Are they going to stop shipping iThings to the Russians until they repeal their anti-gay laws?

Thought not...

Re: Shuttleworth, F.U. and your socialistic pandering!

My hope is that a large chunk of that 300 bn was so that NASA could fund a large one-way mission to Mars, and putting all the politicians on it...

Re: Maybe what's needed is

It'd never get past Health & Safety... (a point made, if I recall correctly, by May et al a while back...)

Re: Purpose?

Tax the profits????

Watch them magically disappear...

Re: As a shareholder

Presumably by ignoring the "share price may go down" part of the investment risk-taking...

Re: I don't get it

They're still doing it - as recently as a month ago

The gist of the last one I saw was "Nokia Lumia 900 ... cheaper than an iPhone" (I forget the actual model number, but you get the idea)

" I had no money do anything with it though"

Most of my friends - being students at the time - funded their kit by investing their student grants in the privatisations of BT et al, then flogging off the shares a week later... (as presumably a lot of others did also)

Re: The proof of the pudding...

Interesting... I wonder if Google did the same when buying Motorola?

(My guess... probably down the back of a sofa floating in the Irish Sea somewhere...)

Re: And, I bet the good people of Wiltshire return her to the house ...

"Well yes, you wouldn't want her back in Wiltshire talking bollocks, would you?"

(Speaking as a Wiltshire resident, but not one of her constituents - oh... apologies for the accidental use of "tit" back there Claire...) As long as she's in the middle of a field somewhere (or the Kennet & Avon canal), that'll do me just fine...

Re: Worst movie? No way...

"2001, Star Wars, Bladerunner, Alien, Aliens, The Matrix.... where are this generations films?"

At the bottom of the pile of "Merchandising 2" (3, 4, ...) scripts I'll wager...

Re: Screw 0871, 09xx is where it's at.

Or use the number of a PPI claim company?

So the instant it gets used - the advertiser gets bombarded with cold calls... which has the side benefit of costing the PPI company as well...

Re: Will it find ...

"Will it find the bug where the FB app on iOS keeps forgetting that I want to see people's stuff in reverse chronological order rather than FB's rather arbitrary choice of what it thinks I'm interested in (i.e. lots of other people thought it was interesting. It wasn't.)?"

And on Android, and on the Desktop... by design it is then...

Re: How to excape NSA snooping

"Face to face meetings."

Except of course they could/will be tailing you...

Re: PEBKAC needs an upgrade

PEATS - Problem Exists Above Touch Screen?

Re: Asperger's and IT

Agreed on the patchy nature of the diagnosis service:

My (then 12-yr-old) daughter was diagnosed with Aspergers some 5 years ago, but only because someone at school noticed the effects it was having on her in class, so she was referred to a suitable centre and the rest is history.

I had a (brief) conversation with my doctor at the time about what I could do about being assessed myself: I was having a "me too" phase if people insist on calling it that (but I prefer that they didn't) as I share some of her traits, but all he could say was that I'd have to arrange it privately (not that he knew of anywhere local in any case) - so I left it at that, other than to sign us up with the Autism Research Centre to help them with their research.

Re: Waste of time and effort

"pay a witholding tax on turnover "

We already have that - it's called income tax. Seems to work well enough for most of us...

Re: One question... Why?

"There's still work to be done on 4G"

Ah yes... "It's not ready, but release it anyway" (surprised they didn't stick a Beta label on in a la Google...)

Addendum: For rarely-used apps, they're still in the App Drawer should you need them

Re: Sorry...

"By the way Shy People, it takes effort to be social and you will always have to supply that yourself. "

If it were that simple, there'd be no need for coaching...

Re: At least with this site...

"You rarely get a 1 with a 10"

1 + £lots = 10...

Re: The IRS...

re: "3 years and £3,000 pounds spent by me that resulted in absolutely nothing"

You should have told them you worked for Goldman Sachs (or Vodafone, etc...) - they'd have bent over backwards to help out then!

Re: a thief?

Developing ideas is one thing...

...patenting the hell out of them afterwards so that it appears you "invented" them is another...

Re: so expect

The pixels might not be square?

Re: There's no need for press regulation per se

Won't Coulson (hopefully) be doing time soon? I wonder if he'll take Dave down with him?

Re: You kind of have it backwards...

Already happening for real - I recall from somewhere (possibly QI) that there are modern versions of the Abbey Road sleeve art where Paul no longer has a cigarrette in his hand

Re: @Trevor_Pott

Shallow it may be - but then neither of you have any evidence to back up statements either way...

For all I know you're correct - but I'll wager that Redmond isn't exactly unhappy that Nokia have waded in.

Re: No microSD AGAIN

" the reality is that it goes in & is never changed,"

That may be the case ... but I'd prefer to have the option to do so if I want (or need) to.

Re: "balls to do it under his real name"

Good afternood, Mr Coward

(Any relation to Noel?)

Re: Boo hoo hoo

I hear a whooshing sound...

Re: wtf ?

More likely than the other way around I'll wager...